Before Sleep

15 February – 7 March 2022

This exhibition is the story of children living in the city. Ayşe Topçuoğulları, who paints children who dream of nature, the nature described in fairy tales, makes the audience ask questions with the opening sentence of the fairy tales that begin with “once upon a time, once upon a time”. Through the subjects of her work, she emphasizes the relationship between the opportunities children have in the city and their longing for nature. Offering a new perspective on children’s journey of finding their selves in his works, the artist constructs this process with a new fairy tale narrative in each of his paintings in which he emphasizes the search of children in the business world.